in reply to Page Break Characters
Mainframes often used fixed-width records and reports are actually files with (typically) 133 characters per record. However, the report itself is only 132 characters wide. The first character is called the "Carriage Control" and this tells the printer how to behave, but itself is not printed. The following table lists the carriage control codes you're likely to encounter:
| CC | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 1 | Advance to the top of the next page |
| + | Advance zero lines (overprint) | blank | Advance 1 line (note that most of your lines have a space for the first character) |
| 0 | Advance 2 lines |
| - | Advance 3 lines |
If you want to replicate the structure of the report, you'll need to take these into account.
Cheers,
Ovid
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